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Auction History Result 3k312 GEORGE RAFT 8x10 still '37 attending premiere of Souls at Sea with fiancee Virginia Pine! Date Sold 10/27/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) George Raft (born George Ranft) was a legendary tough guy actor (specializing in crime and film noir roles) from the 1920s to the 1980s. Like James Cagney, he actually WAS born in a tough neighborhood in New York City, so his tough guy persona was honestly earned! Note that he first appeared in movies in minor roles in 1929, but it took three years and seven movies before he got his big break in Howard Hughes' "Scarface" (where he played Paul Muni's coin-flipping henchman). After that, he was rushed into six movies in the rest of 1932 alone, and he remained a major star (mostly in gangster roles) for many years. Some of his other movies include: Each Dawn I Die, Manpower, If I Had a Million, They Drive by Night, and Some Like It Hot (in a great cameo where he played a parody of his earlier gangster roles). He passed away in 1980 at the age of 79. Important Added Info: Note that this is a very interesting still! In it, Raft is attending the premiere of "Souls at Sea" with fiancée Virginia Pine, yet he never married Miss Pine. We did research, and found a newspaper story from a year earlier saying that Miss Pine (the daughter of a Chicago millionaire and the divorced wife of another Chicago millionaire) was about to marry George Raft, as soon as he got a Mexican divorce from his wife. But Raft's wife never would give him the divorce, and in those days, there wasn't much you could do about it, so at some point after this, Raft and Pine went their separate ways! Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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